Nadia Comaneci | positive
Nadia Comaneci | positive Read More »
I never appreciated ‘positive heroes’ in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more ‘productive’ literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.
Jose Saramago | positive Read More »
And to me, fame is not a positive thing. The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality. It’s fantastic when you go to premieres and people cheer you, but it’s not real. And it’s totally not my approach to get my name on a club door just because I can.
Tom Felton | positive Read More »
Don’t let people disrespect you. My mom says don’t open the door to the devil. Surround yourself with positive people.
Cuba Gooding, Jr. | positive Read More »
I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it’s proactive and there is positive intent behind it.
Michael J. Fox | positive Read More »
For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.
Thomas Mann | positive Read More »
People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.
Raoul Vaneigem | positive Read More »
But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.
Honore de Balzac | positive Read More »
We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.
Alexis de Tocqueville | positive Read More »
Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are – these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum.
P. J. O’Rourke | positive Read More »